The Osceola times., 1887-03-05
MISCELLANEOUS.

able horses and mules We're burned 10
| death. Two fircmen were badly injured
MISCELLANEOUS.
THE Dominion election returns received
up to the night Of the e3d show the cleo.
tion Of 10 Conservatives, SO Liberals and
4 Independents.
ABour fifty representatives OF the lum-
Der trade at Lake Erie ports met at San
duslky, o., on the 23l, and held "A conven-
tion under the auspices of the local Lum-
Der Dealers Association. The day was
| spent in discussion OF the prices Of yari-
Gus grades of lumber, transportation
| rates, etc.
| IT is understood the celebrated Choctaw
claim, recently decided favorably to the
| Indians by the courts, Will be provided
| for in the Deficiency Appropriation bill.
II will require an appropriation OF s3Oo)'-
900 to nay this claim and the disburse-
ment OF the money IL To be made at Table
| quah in the Indian Territory.
TuE Covington Ky street-car employees
went out on strike on the 23l
WAR has at last been declared between
the Amalgamated Association and the
Knights Of Labor at Mingo junction,
TnE Union Labor party finished its
work and ad ourncd sine die at Cincinnati
| on the 24th \ serious split was averted
by eliminating nearly or quite one-half of
the platform.
Ir is reported that three Russian mill
tary officers discovered in u recent con
spiracy against the government have been
executed at ST. Petersburg
THERE was hung jury in the Irish con
spiracy trials
A CONVENTION Of Pacific aud Western
railway managers assembled at Chicago
on the oath to discuss the Interstate Com
merce law. John G. Brown, of the Texas
a. Pacific, presided
RUSSIAN and German relations are rep
resented as being of the most cordial char
acter
A scATHTNG and rcbuklng report Is
made against the management of the
Summit County (OJ inhrmary by the
Board Of State Charities, and several re-
movals are recommended
The Cincinnati trunk mystery has been
explalned-it was only q corpse for doe
tor to dissect
The seismoscope set up in the physical
laboratory at the United States Signal
ONCE in Washington was disturbed by
and accurately recorded at 1850 m merdian
time, February %, the arrival at that
point of the recent earthquake that oc-
Cured in France and Italy. A rough cal
culation gives about five hundred miles
per hour as the velocity of transmission.
ACCORDING to the rules of the House,
the last six days of the session motions TO
suspend the rules and take bills up for
passage are in order at any time. II is
understood the Speaker has agreed 10
recognize General Henderson, of Iowa,
under this order, TO take up the bill giving
Mrs. Logan pension Of g, 900 per annum.
There is little doult that If the bill is
brought TO a vote it Will pass.
Tar total collections of internal revenue
during the first seven months Of the fiscal
year, endel June 30. 1887. were 90, ,0is, s0s,
being Ss37, ,5A less than the collections dur.
ing the same period Of the last fiscal year.
There was a decrease of S3,S77570 In the
collection from spirits; an increase OF
SS7S. $50 from tobacco; an increase of
81, 233.5l2 from fermented liquors, and au
increase OF $50 335 from miscellaneous Oh
jects.
MAINE has quarantined against cattle
from New York, Massachusetts, and Hi
nois.
An imperial order has been issued set
ting forth the oath bishops in Prussia
must take before assuming their bishop
ric duties. II is a strong obligation
IT ia probable special session Of the
United States Senate will be called for
purposes Of confirmation.
AN exceedingly violent storm ragged ON
the 26.h from the Atlantic ocean 20 the
Rocky mountains.
TIE whites have recently made such
violent attacks upon the Chinese at Van
couver that the Cele stials have thought IL
wisdom TO emigrate.
A sLIouT shock Of earthq uake was felt
at Charleston and other points in South
Carolina and Georgia on the morning of
the 26th.
THERE is a general fear that the clog OF
business is so great in Congress that
some of the appropriation bills viii fail
sor want of time.
OK the S5th New England had the worst
snow-storm for twenty years.
THg NorA 0srmas Gasetss denies that
Bisnarck ever said that Russia should
nevoe talko The Balkan 6tateA The Gassi6
sayS tosthsr that Germany VII ~ intg.
oDIe wtlA 1aasla's plas u ~ BasA